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Book Reviews of Someone Like You
Book Review: Someone Like You
Summary: 5 Stars
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen is 281 pages long and published by The Penguin Group in 1998. This is a realistic fiction novel told through the eyes of Halley, the main character, as she travels through the hardships in her junior year of high school. Other characters that play an important role in the storey are Scarlet, her best friend, Macon, her boyfriend, and her parents.
In Someone Like You Halley is trying to find herself and break free of the hold her mother has on her life along with trying to stay strong for Scarlet who seems to be having even bigger problems. Scarlet finds out she's pregnant with the child of her boyfriend who died in a motorcycle accident. Halley meets Macon who pressures her to do things she doesn't feel comfortable doing and leads her down some bad paths, separating her even more from her parents.
I absolutely love this book. It had a lot of life lessons on love, friends, and family. I liked how realistic the story, the people, and the pressures they face are, and how it can be related to any teenagers' life. The writing is very descriptive and Sarah Dessen does a great job giving detail to the characters so it's like you really know them and feel what they're feeling.
I could hardly put the book down at night. I recommend this book to everyone who likes Realistic Fiction even just a little bit.
Book Review: Someone Like You
Summary: 2 Stars
Well i suppose it was an ok read, but just ok. I was really expecting more. This was my best friends favorite book so when she gave it to me for christmas, i wanted to read it. I was sadly dissapointed! Im sorry, but cigarette smoking bad boys who get drunk and go to parties arent the type of guys i'd be swooning over. I guess if i havent read so many beter romance/teen books, i'd say this was pretty good, but it didnt even really end well either. Her and the guy never even really talked at the end. I guess my big mistake was reading Twilight before reading this book. If you want a real romance book thats PG, and so amazing you feel it in your heart, i would highly recomend Twilight! That is the book i got my best friend hooked on! When i asked her which she prefered~ there was no competition. Twilight won.Book Review: Someone Like You
Summary: 3 Stars
After reading The Truth About Forever, I backtracked to Sarah Dessen's second published novel, Someone Like You. Thinking back on this, I probably should have at least waited a day before plowing into more Dessen books, because I couldn't help making comparisons and switching so quickly between first person books can be disorienting. Of course, that didn't stop me in the least.
Someone Like You is very much an early novel, filled with firsts for Halley and her best friend, Scarlett. First relationships, first sexual encounters, first parties...right down to first pregnancies. This legion of firsts quickly pile up as an obstacle course for Halley and Scarlett's friendship, testing it to its limits as lifelong best friends switch roles and navigate through high school life with a baby on the way. Scarlett is the bold one, and Halley is the shy one, both suffering through reversals of very unexpected proportions, and while their circumstances shove them into different roles they are still very much pressing on each other and depending on each other at the same time. Halley is going through her first relationship with bad boy Macon, the best friend of Scarlett's unborn baby's deceased father (that, is quite a mouthful), and feeling the pressures of giving in to his relentless need for sex. Scarlett, with enough experience behind her to know better, stands as Halley's obvious moral compass, much to everyone's distress. When things start to come apart, the baby is on its way, and friendship is certainly the one thing that is going to keep them both on their feet.
This isn't as well done as The Truth About Forever, with a rushed ending only the miracle of birth can supply. Halley and Macon's relationship is left teetering on a cliff of will they/won't they, leaving it up to the readers as to where Halley stands on the issue. The book is mainly Scarlett and Halley, as it should be, and their new addition to the party. Which is just fine, just not as satisfying as it could have been in the end.
Book Review: Someone Like You
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is incredible! I couldn't put it down. It was a bit depressing, but at the same time it talked about something that happens often, a girl in high school gets pregnant. When I read the first few pages about Michael, her boyfriend, dying, that was really sad and I cried. Therefore, it was well written to make me cry. I went through many emotions while reading this book.Book Review: Someone Like You
Summary: 4 Stars
This book was a good one, but definately not one of my favorites by Sarah Dessen. When Halley's best friend, Scarlett gets pregnant with her dead boyfriend's baby, she needs Halley more than ever. Normally, it's Halley leaning on Scarlett, so this is something new for Halley. Also, of course there's a boy for Halley. His name is Macon. Mostly for the whole book I was just rooting for Halley to make the right decision about Macon. The end is definately a good one, which is why I gave this book 4 stars. =)